Eastergate / Gate
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1719189] [accessed 25 September 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06045EAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Church Lane, Eastergate, West Sussex, PO20 3UX
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B2233, 9-10 km E of Chichester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Avisford -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Harrison (1920) notes a Perpendicular font in this church. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 5, pt. 1, 1997) notes: "There was a church in 1086, [...] which by 1087 belonged to Sées abbey (Orne) [...] The chancel is late 11th- or early 12th-century". There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this church]. The present font may be the one noted in the above sources; it consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides and a chamfer at the underbowl, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal and an octagonal lower base with a tiny extension in the manner of a kneeling stone. The basin has an indentation on one of its sides, towards the upper rim, which may have been the location for an old cover lock; the sides of the basin are suspiciously smooth, and the stem and the lower base appear modern. If the basin is modern it must have been re-tooled at some point.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.8377,
-0.6591
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 50′ 15.72″ N,
0° 39′ 32.76″ W
UTM: 30U 664823 5634388
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with some carving on the upper surface
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-09-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928